Tag: Documentary
The documentary project Citizen Koch was greenlit last spring and was headed to PBS, until David Koch himself — a big PBS donor — had PBS drop its financial support. What’s next? Kickstarter, obviously. Citizen Koch tells that story — from the political influence wielded by billionaire industrialists and conservative activists David and Charles Koch, and […]
Nick Cave pretends to chauffeur Kylie Minogue and Ray Winstone. Nick Cave watches Scarface with his twelve-year-old sons. He goes to a psychoanalyst, has lunch with Warren Ellis and visits the Nick Cave Archive at the “Melbourne Arts Centre” set. But not really. For their upcoming “drama-documentary” 20,000 Days on Earth, conceptual artists and music history re-enactors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard don’t […]
There’s a reason why McKibbin Lofts made it to the Worst Room Tumblr, but shut up and look beyond its notorious “h-word” “frat” reputation. There’s a reason why people do this. Not everyone cares about renovated bathrooms and walls. Who needs walls when you have friends. A French foreign exchange student living there made the […]
A new Kickstarter project was launched today for a documentary about Aaron Swartz. Directed by Brian Knappenberger, The Internet’s Own Boy explores the life of internet activist and programming pioneer from his formative years on the internet and involvement in both RSS and Reddit up into his final days of arrest and prosecution involving the downloading of nearly four million academic […]
Here’s a mini-doc featuring Marcin Lodyga and Vladimir Umanets, the notorious duo of IRL art trolls, artists, philosophers, vandals, Yellowists. It features the Yellowists explaining Yellowism and screenshots of all the press hate/bemusement. Last year, Umanets was sentenced to two years in prison for writing his name on a Rothko at Tate Modern, turning it into […]
Julien Nitzberg, director of cult favorite The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, created this 10-minute documentary on hero comedian Patton Oswalt. To Be Loved and Understood touches on the performer’s creative process, daily life, and struggles with depression, with a good dose of stand-up footage thrown in as well. Brought to you by the Thrash Lab, […]
Vivan Maier was one of the best street photographers no one’s ever heard off, until one lucky kid found 100,000 of her negatives. Nanny by day, and brilliant photographer by later that day, Maier privately captured decades of Chicago’s history. She was also a hoarder, a hermit and just a little bit strange. She hid everything. […]
Here’s a perfect thing that just happened. The much awaited TPB:AFK documentary premiered at the Berlinale film festival. It’s about the Pirate Bay founders. We’ve been really looking forward to it. So much. And now, from the artists of the F.A.T. collective, here’s the TPB AFK ILLEGAL CAM BOOTLEG AT WORLD PREMIERE!!! Yey. You can torrent it at F.A.T. […]
Hey, you guys. This very hype Kubrick documentary Room 237 has a giant Kubrick-had-nothing-to-do-with-it disclaimer. Look: NEITHER THIS FILM, NOR ANY VIEW OR OPINION EXPRESSED IN IT, NOR THE CONTEXT IN WHICH FILM FOOTAGE AND IMAGES ARE USED, IS APPROVED OR ENDORSED BY, OR IS IN ANY WAY ASSOCIATED WITH, THE KUBRICK 1981 TRUST, STANLEY […]
Yes, this a documentary. It’s shot gorgeously. It feels like a feature film, but… you can’t make this shit up. Berlin’s Fuck For Forest is one of the world’s most bizarre charities. Based on the idea that sex can save the world, the NGO raises money for their environmental cause by selling home-made erotic films […]
